According to Master Hsuan Hua, the most popular example of esoteric teachings still practiced in many Zen monasteries of East Asia, is the and its dhāraṇī (), along with the Great Compassion Dharani (), with its 42 Hands and Eyes Mantras.

According to a legend in the 18th-century, a tengu took the form of a yamabushi and faithfully served the abbot of a Zen monastery until the man guessed his attendant's true form.

* Stucco, Guido ( 1994 ), " Introduction ," in Evola, The Path of Enlightenment According to the Mithraic Mysteries, Zen: The Religion of the Samurai, Rene Guenon: A Teacher for Modern Times, and Taoism: The Magic, the Mysticism ( Edmonds, WA: Holmes Publishing Group )

According to the Lankavatara Sutra and the schools of Chan / Zen Buddhism, the alaya-vjnana is identical with the tathagata-garbha, and is fundamentally pure.

According to famous Zen master and intellectual Musō Soseki, who enjoyed his favor and collaborated with him, Takauji had three qualities.

According to Nan Huaijin's description of the Ch ' an / Zen monastic system, the abbot of the monastery customarily lived in a small room patterned after that of Vimalakīrti's room.

According to the book's own introduction, it was produced in emulation of an old Zen painting exercise called " one hundred demons.

According to the Zen tradition, the Buddha reached his decisive insight at 8 December.

According to Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki ( who uses the term " Manas " rather than " Manas Vijnana " for the seventh consciousness ) the Lankavatara Sutra presents the Zen view of the Eight Consciousnesses rather than the Yogacara view.

According to Sharf and Victoria Suzuki was associated with Japanese nationalism and its propagation via the appraisal of Japanese Zen.

According to author Jeff Wilson, " Though Tricycle seeks to represent itself as nonsectarian, in practice there is much more Zen and Tibetan material than other forms of Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism ... Tricycle does not represent the whole of Buddhism or even American Buddhism, but it does offer a consistently interesting perspective on issues and ideas that influence many Buddhists in the United States today.

According to philosopher and theologian Alan Watts, the double bind has long been used in Zen Buddhism as a therapeutic tool.

According to Brian Daizen Victoria's book, Zen War Stories, the Black Dragon Society was reconstituted in 1961 as the Black Dragon Club ( Kokuryū-Kurabu.

According to Zen tradition, the givers should be grateful.

According to Bodiford, " Zen is the predominant form of Buddhism because of dharma transmission ":

According to Dr. Masunaga ( founder of Zen Shiatsu ), who has assigned psychological functions to the Functional Circles, the meridian of the gallbladder stands on behalf for the function of short-time decisions: " Do I go to the right or to the left?

According to Nguyen and Barber, Thich Nhat Hanh ’ s fame in the Western world as a proponent of engaged Buddhism and a new zen style has “ no affinity with or any foundation in traditional Vietnamese Buddhist practices ” and according to Alexander Soucy ( 2007 ) his style of Zen Buddhism is not reflective of actual Vietnamese Buddhism.

According to Kirsten Mitsuyo Maezumi, this " caused the separation of my parents and was the reason my mother left the Zen Center of Los Angeles with my brother and I in 1983 ".

According to Chinese legend, the monk Ji Gong is a reincarnation of Mahākāśyapa ( known as the Taming Dragon arhat ).

According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

According to the new theories, the nineteenth century corporate sovereign was `` sovereign '' in a quite new and different sense from his historical predecessors.

According to Stacy, she told him she was planning to remarry and she wanted him to ask Forbes for the lump sum.

According to the medical examiner, she was shot between eleven p.m. and one a.m..

According to the medical examiner she was shot between eleven p.m. and one a.m..

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 19 082 000 in 2010, compared to only 4 148 000 in 1950.

According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.

According to Plutarch's natural order of attribution of the vowels to the planets, alpha was connected with the Moon.

According to Lovecraft's " History of the Necronomicon " ( written 1927, first published 1938 ), Alhazred was:

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's trade deficit in 2006 was $ 1. 2 billion with growth in exports being largely flat.

According to the state-owned Armenpress news agency, the average monthly wage in Armenia for the first half of 2007 was 70, 700 drams ( about $ 210 USD ).

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus ' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam ( aphros ) arose Aphrodite.

According to the archaeologists, the door was reused in a structure in Roman Egypt.

According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being, a soul now separated from the body in which it was " housed " during its earthly existence.

According to Hartshorne people do not experience subjective ( or personal ) immortality in the afterlife, but they do have objective immortality because their experiences live on forever in God, who contains all that was.